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in both europe and america -- with eugenics. in america a group was led by such people as margaret sanger, whose journal, the birth control review, endorsed her friends book, quote, the title is the rising tide of color, against white world supremacy. her into this negro project use black ministers, including adam clayton powell to promote birth control. but the effort in england, germany and the united states to melt public health and eugenics rampart deeper. rather, they found their way into international and state policy with support from groups such as the national committee for mental hygiene, urging sterilization as a newcomer to quote prevent this class of persons from propagating, unquote. germany use venereal disease law to enlist doctors, greatly extending the power of the state into the private sphere kind producing a union with a medical profession that would be preferred rather easily in the third reich. in germany, one expert observe quote the more scientific a doctor's outlook was, the more politically naÏve he w
in both europe and america -- with eugenics. in america a group was led by such people as margaret sanger, whose journal, the birth control review, endorsed her friends book, quote, the title is the rising tide of color, against white world supremacy. her into this negro project use black ministers, including adam clayton powell to promote birth control. but the effort in england, germany and the united states to melt public health and eugenics rampart deeper. rather, they found their way into...
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this is true as much in the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy as it is this time around. first there are people you have to talk to. and while i was blessed from beginning to end by having some fascinating people to talk to about joe kennedy including large numbers of committees, i much prefer working from written documents to listening to people talk and try to figure out what's real, what's imagined, what they know, what they think they know because someone told them what they think they know they don't know at all. the difficulty is that it is not always easy to establish to construct the path that is so close to us and yet this is what historians have to do. our job is to complicate to take apart our common sense to interrogate what we think we know to demystify, demythologize, move beyond the cliche about winners and losers, saints and sinners, about the wisdom and courage of the forefathers especially those of the greatest generation. our job as historians is totally different story, the grounded b
this is true as much in the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy as it is this time around. first there are people you have to talk to. and while i was blessed from beginning to end by having some fascinating people to talk to about joe kennedy including large numbers of committees, i much prefer working from written documents to listening to people talk and try to figure out what's real, what's imagined, what they know, what...
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which organized and arranged 20th century america. joseph kennedy was a invalid type figure. he was everywhere. he was born in 1888. he lived through world war i. the 120s. he lived in hollywood at the moment of transition from silent films to talking films. he was on wall street during the boom and bust. he worked as part of the franklin roosevelt campaign team. he was the first chairman of securities and exchange commission and the maritime commission and the first irish-american to be ambassador for the court of st. james to great britain. he was also the father of the president and attorney general. a senator and the woman who did more for the mentally disabled in this country and this world than anyone else. a woman who will be as well known as her brothers, i think. the youngest to, the ambassador to ireland, jean kennedy smith, who was essential enraging piece. and senator edward kennedy, the longest-serving senator at his death in the united states senate. the story of joseph kennedy is the story of the man who spent his life moving back and forth from outsider to ins
which organized and arranged 20th century america. joseph kennedy was a invalid type figure. he was everywhere. he was born in 1888. he lived through world war i. the 120s. he lived in hollywood at the moment of transition from silent films to talking films. he was on wall street during the boom and bust. he worked as part of the franklin roosevelt campaign team. he was the first chairman of securities and exchange commission and the maritime commission and the first irish-american to be...
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america blossoms again. why in the world are we going backwards? biscuits to simply not understood and that is free markets are not inherently unstable. every major economic crisis has massive government errors, the free enterprise gets the blame. going back to the depression when we destroy the terrorist instead of the world in a downward spiral. britain and elsewhere put a massive tax increase, deep in depression. so when the current crisis, we started to print too many dollars for central banks of the same thing. you get the housing bubble. that could not have happened. at the federal reserve hadn't printed the money. the evil bankers get the blame. that's why when you get a crisis like this, government grows because it says we're here to help you. we have to step in and increased power. they also use the compassion card. this is to help children. you are against children? you don't like education? so you go on the moral defensive. so it's not enough to say free markets work. if people feel free markets are somehow a moral, that is sort of a sem
america blossoms again. why in the world are we going backwards? biscuits to simply not understood and that is free markets are not inherently unstable. every major economic crisis has massive government errors, the free enterprise gets the blame. going back to the depression when we destroy the terrorist instead of the world in a downward spiral. britain and elsewhere put a massive tax increase, deep in depression. so when the current crisis, we started to print too many dollars for central...
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this is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america. writing about the recent past is not easy to tailor this time around. first, there were people got to talk to. i was blessed from beginning to end by having fascinating views. i much prefer working for but documents than listening to people, tried to figure out what's real, what's imagined, what they know, what they think they know because someone told them what they think they know, but they don't know at all. the other difficult thing about writing about more recent past is it's not always easy to establish one's distance from it, to construct a pass that is so close to them. and yet, this is what historians have to do. our job is to complicate, to take apart our commonsense view of the recent past, to interrogate what we think we know, to demystify cavity mythologize, move beyond clichÉs about winners and losers, saints and sinners, about the wisdom and courage of our forefathers, especially those of the greatest generation. our job as historian, when grounded, delays of joseph p.
this is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america. writing about the recent past is not easy to tailor this time around. first, there were people got to talk to. i was blessed from beginning to end by having fascinating views. i much prefer working for but documents than listening to people, tried to figure out what's real, what's imagined, what they know, what they think they know because someone told them what they think they know, but they don't know at all. the other...
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his new book, "the littlest america." mr. chandrasekaran, when you talk about little america, what are you talking about? >> guest: i'm talking about this remarkable community that the americans built in the deserts of southern afghanistan. not in the last couple years, but six decades ago. back when, unknown to most of our countrymen, there were dozens and dozens of american engineers there. this was back in the '40s and '50s digging irrigation canals, helping to nation build in afghanistan. and the very same terrain that president obama's troop surge unfolded in over the past couple of years. in in my history of obama's surge, i actually start back in the 1940s and this remarkable period of american assistance to afghanistan, a period of great optimism when we built this town there that the afghans started to call little america complete with a co-ed high school swimming pool where boys and girls would swim together, a clubhouse where you could get a gin and tonic. it was a period of great promise for the americans and afgh
his new book, "the littlest america." mr. chandrasekaran, when you talk about little america, what are you talking about? >> guest: i'm talking about this remarkable community that the americans built in the deserts of southern afghanistan. not in the last couple years, but six decades ago. back when, unknown to most of our countrymen, there were dozens and dozens of american engineers there. this was back in the '40s and '50s digging irrigation canals, helping to nation build...
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the other aspect is america is not so inhumane that in the end when the need is desperate they do get into a hospital, but the cost gets shifted in the complicated accounting to somebody else. selling fact one of the reasons we have such an inefficient health care system is we don't provide care to large fraction of the population. >> the amazing thing, getting to it sort of universal health care system, despite the absence of a public option and the compromise made it is not a big budget. they were able to pay for it with relatively modest savings and the little bit of extra taxation and on balance the congressional budget office says the health reform bill is actually going to reduce the budget deficit and it is not going to lead to huge burdens on the public. that they die, it is very much at stake. if obama is reelected, america joined the community of civilized nations that provide some form of health insurance to all their citizens. if he loses it gets killed. >> we are out of tune to the rest of the industrial countries. nicolas sarkozy in france came to columbia and gave a tal
the other aspect is america is not so inhumane that in the end when the need is desperate they do get into a hospital, but the cost gets shifted in the complicated accounting to somebody else. selling fact one of the reasons we have such an inefficient health care system is we don't provide care to large fraction of the population. >> the amazing thing, getting to it sort of universal health care system, despite the absence of a public option and the compromise made it is not a big...
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and the big business, the corporations, the 1% and the rich, the jews, america. this enemy is necessary not because the troubled or hateful but because their weekend. they've become weak through the constant and tolerable expenditure of energy of the improvisation of a culture if. the house guest that was previously the left is quite literally the pledge allegiance to obama in the may encounter a rational change either from himself or from another which is insurmountable in the state they must feel the priceless appearance can enliven his resolve calling upon of his exhausted believe but upon his an exhausted courage. i would suggest we let this we imagine himself as at the bridge but it is universally read in the use is no longer of cultural currency and which of the songs of my you free man casing at columbia at the ocean, captain my captains from star spangled banner, the lord's prayer, the cottage, the communion, the mass, the deacons, the bible, the declaration of independence from the gettysburg address. those various productions of poetry, universally led
and the big business, the corporations, the 1% and the rich, the jews, america. this enemy is necessary not because the troubled or hateful but because their weekend. they've become weak through the constant and tolerable expenditure of energy of the improvisation of a culture if. the house guest that was previously the left is quite literally the pledge allegiance to obama in the may encounter a rational change either from himself or from another which is insurmountable in the state they must...
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first, there were neutrality laws but there were also very strong isolationist sentiment in america. and even george marshall, who was chief military advisor to franklin roosevelt said, how can we send all these weapons to england if they're going to surrender to the british in a matter of weeks, and we end up fighting the germans? we will be charging into the face of our own weapons. but even though the operation was secret, it became headlines of course when it happened around the world. and everyone knew about it. and roosevelt and marshall were very, very effected by this. they thought if the british government can do this, they are serious. they are not going to negotiate with the germans. they're going to stay in this for as long as they possibly can. and it opened up the pathway for armaments to go to britain, which were very much needed and very much appreciated. >> brooke stoddard, when the official date of the so-called battle for britain, battle of britain? >> when were they? i think britain calls it july to the end of september, let's say. >> of 1940, which is essentially
first, there were neutrality laws but there were also very strong isolationist sentiment in america. and even george marshall, who was chief military advisor to franklin roosevelt said, how can we send all these weapons to england if they're going to surrender to the british in a matter of weeks, and we end up fighting the germans? we will be charging into the face of our own weapons. but even though the operation was secret, it became headlines of course when it happened around the world. and...
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merchants forced parliament to repeal the townsend act to restore trade with america. unfortunately, parliament acted too slowly to avoid the famed boston massacre. the presence of troops in boston streets had the population that unruly elements turned the red coat soldiers into targets, first of insults, then snowballs, then stones, and other missiles. a troop of red coats retaliated and fired rifles into a threatening mob one night, killing five civilians, all of them who turned out to be sam adams' thugs from the water front. nonetheless, it threatened to become a city wide riot, and to prevent a real civil war there, governor thomas hutchenson immediately ordered the officer and the soldiers involved in the incident jailed and brought to trial for murder. defending them were none other than the respected american lawyers, joe -- josiah and quincy. they were not tories, but local farmers. they voted unanimously to acquit the officer and four of the soldiers. they found the other two soldiers guilty of justifiable manslaughter, a little more than a misdemeanor. just
merchants forced parliament to repeal the townsend act to restore trade with america. unfortunately, parliament acted too slowly to avoid the famed boston massacre. the presence of troops in boston streets had the population that unruly elements turned the red coat soldiers into targets, first of insults, then snowballs, then stones, and other missiles. a troop of red coats retaliated and fired rifles into a threatening mob one night, killing five civilians, all of them who turned out to be sam...
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slavery was legal in all of the british colonies and all of north america at the end of the 18th-century, and gradually northern states, northeast and mid-atlantic states abolished slavery but i realized this was a gradual process that took a long time. that what we discovered as there was leaves a new jersey in the 1860's, and most of the states that abolished slavery between c-17 80 and 1804 which is the period that we customarily look at had to do it again leader in the 19th century because there was so much ambiguity as to what the road from slavery to freedom was. so, thinking about that, i tried to then step back and say if this is the case what does this mean for how we should understand emancipation in the united states and the notion of sectionalism between freedom and slavery that organizes our understanding of american political history. so i've been arguing one of the essays in the look that slavery is national, and the communities of run away slaves should be understood by what we call marroons and people of dissent and what we call the northern states and the slaves and the
slavery was legal in all of the british colonies and all of north america at the end of the 18th-century, and gradually northern states, northeast and mid-atlantic states abolished slavery but i realized this was a gradual process that took a long time. that what we discovered as there was leaves a new jersey in the 1860's, and most of the states that abolished slavery between c-17 80 and 1804 which is the period that we customarily look at had to do it again leader in the 19th century because...
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and success of america. they did that -- what drove jefferson in this case was this fear that the revolution would be swallowed up as every other revolution virtually in the world had been by the forces of reaction. i argue in the book that it's impossible, i think, to understand early american history without seeing the period between the end of the french and indian war in 1763 and the end of the war in 1812 and 1815 as a 50-year war with britain. sometimes hot, sometimes cold but always there. imprecise analogy, but it would be writing about washington, adams, jefferson, madison, hamilton without reference to this enduring struggle i think would be like writing about truman, kennedy, nixon, ford, carter, reagan and not mentioning the soviet union. the foreign policy was that significant, and its domestic ramifications were that significant. jefferson was terrified that the british were coming back. the good thing about this argument is they did, so you win. you win the argument. the war of 1812 happened.
and success of america. they did that -- what drove jefferson in this case was this fear that the revolution would be swallowed up as every other revolution virtually in the world had been by the forces of reaction. i argue in the book that it's impossible, i think, to understand early american history without seeing the period between the end of the french and indian war in 1763 and the end of the war in 1812 and 1815 as a 50-year war with britain. sometimes hot, sometimes cold but always...
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it's this notion of america. a radical welcome openness, bring a tradition, plant the seeds and americans will. let them grow into institutions and into the obligations of welcoming and open to others. so that spirit of welcoming and openness that i think is at the heart of american tradition that i think it's at the heart of islam as well. no one articulates that better or well then rumi. >> so, i need to confess that i get emotional when a talk to people like eboo about the issues that we're going to be addressing tonight. particularly the issue of interfaith relations, and also the issue of the idea of america. right after 9/11, several of us, a lot of us gathered at a mosque here here at usc, and i heard a sentence that changed my life. and it was this, to be religious in the 21st century is to be interreligious. and it is that dedication that draws me to eboo and the way he thinks. so, i'm going to apologize only once for an emotional about this man. if i get choked up your just say, chalk it up to that. but
it's this notion of america. a radical welcome openness, bring a tradition, plant the seeds and americans will. let them grow into institutions and into the obligations of welcoming and open to others. so that spirit of welcoming and openness that i think is at the heart of american tradition that i think it's at the heart of islam as well. no one articulates that better or well then rumi. >> so, i need to confess that i get emotional when a talk to people like eboo about the issues that...
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and now we see we in america are at the outword end of sir john gloves' 250 years, and we see the signs. we have passed through the ages of outburst, conquest, commerce, affluence, intellect, and we've come to the age of decadence. this in all empires, he writes can be identified by defensiveness, pessimism, materialism, frivolity, the welfare state, the dissolution of the armed forces, the weakening of religion and the attempt to curry favor in the world. but he also wrote a companion essay called the search or for survival in which he writes that every one of us contribute to the recovery of our country by working harder, by fostering a sense of comradeship and good work and that only a revival of spiritual devotion, not fashionableisms, can inspire service and even of us -- each of us can contribute by speaking and writing in that sense. if we have no reeders, we must go it alone. in the chicago public schools, we regularly read the lay of the last minstrel hoi ray shus of the bridge, and perhaps it is not quite the time to ask how can men die better or than by fiercing -- [inaudible
and now we see we in america are at the outword end of sir john gloves' 250 years, and we see the signs. we have passed through the ages of outburst, conquest, commerce, affluence, intellect, and we've come to the age of decadence. this in all empires, he writes can be identified by defensiveness, pessimism, materialism, frivolity, the welfare state, the dissolution of the armed forces, the weakening of religion and the attempt to curry favor in the world. but he also wrote a companion essay...
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unlike them, america did not belong on that list because of its achievements in the art. it belongs there because by remaining on whole loyal to the principles of firmed in the declaration of independence, it had developed into a country in which there was more liberty and more prosperity, more widely shared than in any other nation in the history of the world. if chambers had lived here he would probably have been shocked by that statement. he most certainly did not partake of the anti-americanism of the left, but there was also a bitter critique of america on the right in which he most certainly did partake. his critique goes all the way back to the earliest days of there public, and it focuses on what has been mentioned several times already, the alleged materialism of american life, the punitive crassness of this culture and it's supposedly philistines indifference or hostility to things of the spirit, all of which were seen to flow from but even togo called the exclusively commercial have a that he claimed were bred in the american bowl. this is pretty much how whita
unlike them, america did not belong on that list because of its achievements in the art. it belongs there because by remaining on whole loyal to the principles of firmed in the declaration of independence, it had developed into a country in which there was more liberty and more prosperity, more widely shared than in any other nation in the history of the world. if chambers had lived here he would probably have been shocked by that statement. he most certainly did not partake of the...
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or maybe you'd rather think of something from the america of that area roughly, maybe a little bit earlier, the great depression, to get an image in your mind of the great depression. if you're having trouble, think of it tired him a worried looking at another stare off into the distance with a ragamuffin child leaning on each shoulder. can you find that famous iconic image in your mind? that image by dorothea lange called migrant mother that has come to symbolize the great depression. the images you've conjured up in your mind have been black and white. very, very likely. so i'd like you to do the same exercise but think of japanese imprisonments. think of the imprisonment of japanese americans during the war. so what are you picturing? does it look like this? a bunch of young, japanese-american grossing promoters dancing? this is a photograph taken by a government photographer at the granada relocation center, also known as the macho in 1943. so if this is that which you had in mind, what's different about it? well, it's a photo of young american citizen to being a celebrating the spirit
or maybe you'd rather think of something from the america of that area roughly, maybe a little bit earlier, the great depression, to get an image in your mind of the great depression. if you're having trouble, think of it tired him a worried looking at another stare off into the distance with a ragamuffin child leaning on each shoulder. can you find that famous iconic image in your mind? that image by dorothea lange called migrant mother that has come to symbolize the great depression. the...
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remember the beginning of the united states of america. the economy of the southern northern states was very very different and evey today, the economy in montana im very different from the economy and lower manhattan. and we found a way to deal with that and to regulate it. the same is true in europe in the same is true in china and the same is true in india and brazil. india. same is the same is true and brazil. this country deals with gaps between the rich and poor, agriculture, and earthen industrialize an evolving in much the same way that we're going to have to on the global stage for a the problem has been solved and can be solved. >> host: good afternoon, we have a caller from new york city. >> caller: hello, i'm so happy you're taking my call. my question is this fiscal cliff that we are approaching. if president obama allows it to happen, what kind of catastrophe are you talking about? i'm kind of concerned? so negatively will this affect the industry? how bad will it really be out there on wall street and main street? >> guest:
remember the beginning of the united states of america. the economy of the southern northern states was very very different and evey today, the economy in montana im very different from the economy and lower manhattan. and we found a way to deal with that and to regulate it. the same is true in europe in the same is true in china and the same is true in india and brazil. india. same is the same is true and brazil. this country deals with gaps between the rich and poor, agriculture, and earthen...
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slavery was legal in all of the british colonies and all of north america at the end of the 18th century, and gradually, northern states and northeast and mid an lat tick states began to abolish slavely, but i learned it was a gradual process. it took a long time. what we discoveredded there were laves in new jersey in 1860, and most of the states that abolished slavery between 1780 and 1804, the period we customarily looked at, had to do it again later in the 19th century because there's so much ambiguity as to what the road to slavery to frame -- freedom was. thinking about that, i tried to then step back and say, well, if that's the case, what's it mean for us to understand the courses of the emancipation in the united states, and the notion of sectionalism between freedom and slavery that organizes our understanding of american political history so i end up arguing in one of the essays of the book that slavery is national, that slaves -- communities of run away slaves should be understood as what we call maroons, fugitive slave communities, and that the links between people of africa
slavery was legal in all of the british colonies and all of north america at the end of the 18th century, and gradually, northern states and northeast and mid an lat tick states began to abolish slavely, but i learned it was a gradual process. it took a long time. what we discoveredded there were laves in new jersey in 1860, and most of the states that abolished slavery between 1780 and 1804, the period we customarily looked at, had to do it again later in the 19th century because there's so...
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. >> now joining us on booktv is peter schiff, he is the author of the real crash, america's coming bankruptcy. how to save yourself and your country. here is the cover of the book published by st. martin's press. what do you think when you talk about a government goebel? >> let's go back. we had two big bubbles, we had the stock market bubble because initially the chief money supplied to the economy by the fed and the stock market has had a lot of the crazy stock is replaced by a larger bubble in the real estate in which we expanded this economy based on all of the false rules while people were spending money that they don't have come in and we have a lot of consumption and employment that was a function of the wealth. that bubble burst and now all of the achieved money that the fed was creating was going into the government through the bond market. the government was able to borrow enormous amounts of money and all true low interest rates thanks to the fed coming and now we have an economy that is dependent on all of this excess government spending in the cheap money and you can see it in th
. >> now joining us on booktv is peter schiff, he is the author of the real crash, america's coming bankruptcy. how to save yourself and your country. here is the cover of the book published by st. martin's press. what do you think when you talk about a government goebel? >> let's go back. we had two big bubbles, we had the stock market bubble because initially the chief money supplied to the economy by the fed and the stock market has had a lot of the crazy stock is replaced by a...
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the challenge in america when you look at the statistics and crime. kids that do not learn to read have an overwhelming factor that there was but a lot of time in jail. and so this is a national challenge for all of us. the other aspect is, what is relevant to consider a. you can hardly dictate relevance . there are aspects of the imagination that people seek out . and sometimes in the worst kinds of circumstances the greatest kind of joy, i saw a demonstration of this this seems really got that implies in the book from the other visual medium, nonprofit organization gave a colony of people living in the country of lebanon that they were refugees and therefore in a camp. all the kids a small automatic camera. they took pictures. they were astonished that every single picture almost without exception, the kids by instinct chose someone smiling, something money. a grace this mystique -- sesame street is found. a great appeal of a new world. the way the adventures of life. and so there seems to be something of very young and the human spirit that six som
the challenge in america when you look at the statistics and crime. kids that do not learn to read have an overwhelming factor that there was but a lot of time in jail. and so this is a national challenge for all of us. the other aspect is, what is relevant to consider a. you can hardly dictate relevance . there are aspects of the imagination that people seek out . and sometimes in the worst kinds of circumstances the greatest kind of joy, i saw a demonstration of this this seems really got...
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. >> in little america: the war within the war for afghanistan, washington post senior correspondent rajiv command sake ran reports on the military and the government's failings in the war in afghanistan. nancy gibbs, editor at large and michael duffy, executive editor for time magazine, chronicle the relationship of the u.s. presidents in "the presidents club: inside the world's most exclusive fraternity." and kevin phillips recounts what he believes was the most important year of the american revolution which was 1775, a good year for revolutions. for an extended list of links to various publications 2012 notable book selections, visit booktv.org or our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> in 2008 judge robert bork sat down with eugene meyer, president of the federalist society, on booktv's "after words," an hourlong interview program. judge bork discussed a collection of his written works spanning nearly four decades. this interview was taped at judge bork's home in virginia. judge robert bork died on december 19, 2012. >> host: why did you, why did you collect "a time to speak,
. >> in little america: the war within the war for afghanistan, washington post senior correspondent rajiv command sake ran reports on the military and the government's failings in the war in afghanistan. nancy gibbs, editor at large and michael duffy, executive editor for time magazine, chronicle the relationship of the u.s. presidents in "the presidents club: inside the world's most exclusive fraternity." and kevin phillips recounts what he believes was the most important year...
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how ultimately her coming across from mexico into america, that sort of spawned this fantastic first generation american story. >> mr. martinez, you were raised in brownsville, texas, right on the border, what was it like during your childhood? >> back then i experienced it as being racially polarized, in a more economic sort of striation, and was very agriculturally based. my parents ran a trucking business that sort of -- basically farm laborers, so kind of a conflicted experience because we would go to school and pretend like we were wealthier than we were, and entirely different, the people who we really are or were, and then we would go home and it was a completely untraditional lifestyle as farm laborers, my brother and myself. my sisters had a different experience. ultimately that was what we knew and what we understood about our environment. >> within the family, what were some of the dynamics? >> my father was latin -- mexico-american. my mother was european-american so that kind of created a very tense -- sort of other complicated household, and they had a lot of children r
how ultimately her coming across from mexico into america, that sort of spawned this fantastic first generation american story. >> mr. martinez, you were raised in brownsville, texas, right on the border, what was it like during your childhood? >> back then i experienced it as being racially polarized, in a more economic sort of striation, and was very agriculturally based. my parents ran a trucking business that sort of -- basically farm laborers, so kind of a conflicted experience...
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glenn beck howard, america would be a racial motto, drift and and coulter, mugged. did either of you pick up any of these books? there was the best seller for a couple weeks, don't they? >> guest: yeah, they do. i'm looking specifically at the and coulter book. she spoke untruths which publishers upon point because anytime you put a book with her name and her face on the cover, it would have a karen t. fail well into six figures. what time the sale strike has been dropping, dropping, dropping it seems as if she's had to come up our rhetoric and argumentative streak to sell fewer and fewer copies. so it will be interesting to see what she does for her next book and how far she's willing to go to make a buck and sell a book to speak. >> host: ipaq drift by rachel mandel went beyond the usual pundit book. it's questioning american military power and a lot of it is not written from a liberal date. she is an unabashed liberal, but she's on tv. i think she has a phd in something, like lyrical science or some thing. i think charles murray would not want to be called a pund
glenn beck howard, america would be a racial motto, drift and and coulter, mugged. did either of you pick up any of these books? there was the best seller for a couple weeks, don't they? >> guest: yeah, they do. i'm looking specifically at the and coulter book. she spoke untruths which publishers upon point because anytime you put a book with her name and her face on the cover, it would have a karen t. fail well into six figures. what time the sale strike has been dropping, dropping,...
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we thought we included everything a president in the united states of america. we really set out to do that. turns out we forgot dwight d. eisenhower. >> that's right. >> the book was printed. we get copies of the book. and in no one out. it was a fairly important. >> arguably more important and millard fillmore. >> i'll read sexual reproduction >> biological means by which man create other smaller man through the use of an intermediary. the man places his reproductive organ into a cavity provided by the intermediary and transfers of volume of genetic material into the receptacle. a tiny capsule except the man's genetic material and stores it in a larger oval shaped holding area within the intermediaries midsection. prior to this muzzle the intermediary promises to alert the progenitor when the little man is ready. working, eating, sleeping, and socializing to relieve stress. then the little man's completion , in some cases the intermediary malfunctions and accidently creates a new bill intermediary. we don't feel this way in real life. [laughter] >> yes, we do.
we thought we included everything a president in the united states of america. we really set out to do that. turns out we forgot dwight d. eisenhower. >> that's right. >> the book was printed. we get copies of the book. and in no one out. it was a fairly important. >> arguably more important and millard fillmore. >> i'll read sexual reproduction >> biological means by which man create other smaller man through the use of an intermediary. the man places his...
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today, washington and its environments contain all the richest counties in america. does that make sense of the people are supposed to be serving us are in fact growing obese with power and privilege? i think that is the simple of that decadent scene. >> how did you get your start? >> i began when i was a young name. i began writing about sex of all things. i wrote a book in which i came to understand, which is later republished in this imprint as men in marriage. i essentially showed that civilization depends on family life, that it is the ties of family that ultimately to the teacher. man's connection to the future passes through the what muppet women. this is man and manage them that believe the breakdown of family way back in the early 1970s would lead to a welfare state for the women and children in the police state for the boys because female-headed families are not raising boys. today, we had the welfare state and defend 70 programs taking care of women and children and we have a police state for the boys, a third of young, black men are in jail or on the land
today, washington and its environments contain all the richest counties in america. does that make sense of the people are supposed to be serving us are in fact growing obese with power and privilege? i think that is the simple of that decadent scene. >> how did you get your start? >> i began when i was a young name. i began writing about sex of all things. i wrote a book in which i came to understand, which is later republished in this imprint as men in marriage. i essentially...
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it is a crucial moment in his career and an important crucial moment in america's history. the big themes that you see in the speech and the broader story working through the election are kind of i think of four that i will be focusing on. i will be brief on each of them to give enough time for questions. first off, the obvious background of the cold war and a new style of conservative vision of foreign policy that i will explain. directly related to that, there is an enormous divide within the republican party in 1952. that shouldn't surprise any of us obviously. this is always a very divided party the tensions within the republican party that the speech and election point to are important. the third thing that i think is perhaps most important is the american tradition of populism for and what richard nixon is doing to the populist tradition in this speech and for what the election and the fourth and final thing is the style of politics nixon developed. the subtitle of the book is about the rocking, socking the election of 1952 and that is nixon's conception of politics,
it is a crucial moment in his career and an important crucial moment in america's history. the big themes that you see in the speech and the broader story working through the election are kind of i think of four that i will be focusing on. i will be brief on each of them to give enough time for questions. first off, the obvious background of the cold war and a new style of conservative vision of foreign policy that i will explain. directly related to that, there is an enormous divide within the...
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is an incredible and in some ways incredible american immigrant story that he comes to america, this is his dream, to become a movie star and he becomes a movie star and then he becomes governor of california. meanwhile the affair with the house speaker which is five pages in the book, he deals with it, doesn't say much, says he made a mistake, regrets it, does this sort of thing people say in those situations and i got an interview with him on the phone friday before the book came out. he already agreed to be on 60 minutes and they have a lot more time and midway through the interview, he said i cannot do arnold well. i don't like the way this interview is going. it is not about his accomplishments. if you like arnold schwarzenegger is all there. it made the best-seller list and went away. >> political pundits. always we get political pundit books every year including charles murray's coming apart, the state of white america, glen beck's power, marc levin, rachel matthau, drift and end coulter's mug. did you pick of these books? they always make a best seller list for a couple weeks
is an incredible and in some ways incredible american immigrant story that he comes to america, this is his dream, to become a movie star and he becomes a movie star and then he becomes governor of california. meanwhile the affair with the house speaker which is five pages in the book, he deals with it, doesn't say much, says he made a mistake, regrets it, does this sort of thing people say in those situations and i got an interview with him on the phone friday before the book came out. he...
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he said america's fascist think wall street comes first in the american people come second. he had enemies and those enemies wanted to get rid of him on the ticket. the problem was he was enormously popular. on july 20, 1944 the night the convention starts the potential potus who they wanted on the ticket as vice president, 65% said they wanted wallace on the ticket in 2% wanted harry truman so the question where how worth it party bosses going to take to this? when they wanted to get wallace off the ticket roosevelt says to him my support wallace but i can't fight this campaign myself. i'm not strong enough and i'm depending on you to do it. they finally gave in and it was terrible that he did. his family was serious. eleanor roosevelt was furious with him. every single one of the roosevelt kids were furious with him. wallace had the backing of labor and all all the blacks and the progressive so there was a fight between the conservatives of the party and still today the democratic party and the southern segregationist. is still that kind of fight. roosevelt did not have th
he said america's fascist think wall street comes first in the american people come second. he had enemies and those enemies wanted to get rid of him on the ticket. the problem was he was enormously popular. on july 20, 1944 the night the convention starts the potential potus who they wanted on the ticket as vice president, 65% said they wanted wallace on the ticket in 2% wanted harry truman so the question where how worth it party bosses going to take to this? when they wanted to get wallace...
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car companies going bankrupt during the last cycle, america is the big capitalist country didn't have a social safety net. of those countries went bankrupt million people would be out of work, a social catastrophe so the government has to step in and bail those companies out. sweden had a car company that went bankrupt, the social safety net and extensive retraining programs, let it go bankrupt. they let the market take its course. which is more capitalist? the country with the save the net that could allow the market to do its thing or the country without one that couldn't afford to let the market do its thing. >> host: let's go to the title, "power, inc.". is this a how to? >> you could read it that way but it is more the cautionary child. it is a story of how the growth of the power of private actors has expanded dramatically not just in the past decade but over the past thousand years, it is a historical trends just like the evolution of democracy, and globalization is the historical trend. we need to understand it that way if we are going to counterbalance it with the interest of
car companies going bankrupt during the last cycle, america is the big capitalist country didn't have a social safety net. of those countries went bankrupt million people would be out of work, a social catastrophe so the government has to step in and bail those companies out. sweden had a car company that went bankrupt, the social safety net and extensive retraining programs, let it go bankrupt. they let the market take its course. which is more capitalist? the country with the save the net...
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issue became the paramount symbol of resistance in latin america and the americas. in fact, it went beyond that. in some parts of brazil, for instance, you find that issue has even been elevated to the supreme deity simply because that was a symbol that was there, the protagonist for freedom. as they find the transposition of deities across the atlantic, not minor, became not only the symbol of resistance in the new world, but the supreme deity in certain parts of brazil. like brazilla, for instance. if you go to the heartland of the europa in brazil, and it's quite plain. but in certain parts issue became the supreme deity. now, consider today -- this was the history of the missionaries in africa, and it goes back a couple of centuries. now, imagine that kadi -- to be a faller of the religion, is virtually to earn the death sentence in certain parts of nigeria. christians also earned the death sentence in certain parts of nigeria, and some of the christians responded in kind and set upon in reprisal. but the level of intolerance based on ignorance has reached such
issue became the paramount symbol of resistance in latin america and the americas. in fact, it went beyond that. in some parts of brazil, for instance, you find that issue has even been elevated to the supreme deity simply because that was a symbol that was there, the protagonist for freedom. as they find the transposition of deities across the atlantic, not minor, became not only the symbol of resistance in the new world, but the supreme deity in certain parts of brazil. like brazilla, for...
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i will focus on bans of america and arguments can certainly be in other cases. i will argue the five most prominent arguments in favor of banning of a gurkha automating consistency in ways that favor majority practice -- the idea of equal respect for all people from which this spring as. all cases of what might turn to the christian tradition against itself called cases of seeing demoting your brother's eye while failing to appreciate the large plank in your own eyes, all target situations alleged to be present in muslim communities failing to note their ubiquity in the worst form in the majority culture. let's look at how each is treated with equal respect. first, is an argument that holds security requires people to show their face when appearing in public places. a second closely related argument which i will treat with that says that the argument of transparency, it says the kind of transparency and reciprocity proper to relations between citizens is impeded by covering part of the face. what is wrong with both of these arguments is they are applied totally
i will focus on bans of america and arguments can certainly be in other cases. i will argue the five most prominent arguments in favor of banning of a gurkha automating consistency in ways that favor majority practice -- the idea of equal respect for all people from which this spring as. all cases of what might turn to the christian tradition against itself called cases of seeing demoting your brother's eye while failing to appreciate the large plank in your own eyes, all target situations...
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it looks really great in some parts of america and really terrible in other parts and we have a long way to go. the second thing "the end of men" does not is delusional. i live in washington d.c. so i know the places where women do not have power and where the problems are in terms of child care and what happens to women at the top which i address in a chapter called the talk. but i write a lot about how this has been going on for 40 years. we haven't turned the world upside down. parts of america look like they're upside-down when you look at relationships but we are long way getting there and i am -- you can see the election as a current example is something profound happened in the last election not just because obama won but the way he won. he won in a way which really changed our ideas about who is the minority and to is the victim which is something you write about a lot. this idea that women put him in power. we had this -- the largest number of female senators we have ever had in history. we had new hampshire the most politically obsessed state in the entire country run by at
it looks really great in some parts of america and really terrible in other parts and we have a long way to go. the second thing "the end of men" does not is delusional. i live in washington d.c. so i know the places where women do not have power and where the problems are in terms of child care and what happens to women at the top which i address in a chapter called the talk. but i write a lot about how this has been going on for 40 years. we haven't turned the world upside down....
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europeans feel that america -- george soros said to me the great thing about being a rich guy in america versus europe is in america if you're rich, people look up to you, and you're not necessarily. what is interesting is similar tensions are evident in europe, two and similar reactions. we've all been following france and attacks at the top living to 70% in the reaction of it to belgium. not for tax purposes, except kind of for tax purposes. in switzerland interestingly, there is a huge kind of national revolt against the superrich should all pay a high-tech suit either. very similar tensions, but there's a more extreme dynamic in the united states. >> which u.s. government policies in your view of that and perpetuate the transfer of wealth between the middle class in the top 1%? and could you rank importance, including for example -- >> would probably take all night. >> i suppose it would, but please address and include the tax equity, inequities, especially between earned income and capital gains. the federal reserves policy of low interest rates and the emphasis on spending rather t
europeans feel that america -- george soros said to me the great thing about being a rich guy in america versus europe is in america if you're rich, people look up to you, and you're not necessarily. what is interesting is similar tensions are evident in europe, two and similar reactions. we've all been following france and attacks at the top living to 70% in the reaction of it to belgium. not for tax purposes, except kind of for tax purposes. in switzerland interestingly, there is a huge kind...
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u-boats in the war or america's sea would become america's cage, cutting off all commerce between the united states and europe. the president ordered them built in 1940 but the navy decided that was probably not a good idea, so they convinced the president that the scarce resources that were available at that time would be better spent on destroyers. i think, if you look at the record you will see that probably was a good idea. the destroyer escort is sort of a novel type of vessel. is smaller than a destroyer, around 300 feet and it had a shorter turning radius so that it could essentially turn on a dime compared to a destroyer. so what they did is they escorted the convoys across the atlantic and the convoys consisted of troop ships and supplied ships for the war effort but if they made contact with the u-boat they could break off in the naked turso's -- ers to that u-boat. when you look at the record, 70 u-boats, they probably were without question the most successful anti-submarine festival on the fleet. this ship is the uss later. it was built in the tampa shipyard for 563 to des
u-boats in the war or america's sea would become america's cage, cutting off all commerce between the united states and europe. the president ordered them built in 1940 but the navy decided that was probably not a good idea, so they convinced the president that the scarce resources that were available at that time would be better spent on destroyers. i think, if you look at the record you will see that probably was a good idea. the destroyer escort is sort of a novel type of vessel. is smaller...
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they hated america. you see the refusal to engage in political warfare in places like egypt, where, you know, 48% of the people voted against morsi for president. they didn't want a brotherhood president, and right now, today, this week, thousands of egyptians out in the street protesting, only we're not protesting. the state department said expressed concern when he did a little constitutional coo a few days ago, concern, which is about the weakest word in the state department lexicon. my fear is you have millions of people in arab countries who want to fight for democracy and moderation and the rule of law, and they are fighting. they are going to have a tough struggle, and we're not going to support them. we, the united states, officially, because the administration seems to have concluded that the islamists are the authentic voice of the youth and the wave of the future. .. let me make this a my flippant point about the hillary clinton aide. half jokingly. maybe more, more than half seriously. what d
they hated america. you see the refusal to engage in political warfare in places like egypt, where, you know, 48% of the people voted against morsi for president. they didn't want a brotherhood president, and right now, today, this week, thousands of egyptians out in the street protesting, only we're not protesting. the state department said expressed concern when he did a little constitutional coo a few days ago, concern, which is about the weakest word in the state department lexicon. my fear...
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so, these are the forces that are moving america. there is movement towards this place we are going to. i am curious to know what you think those forces are. where the labor movement is going to end up because they argue there are moments in history, tiffin plants things can change where there can be of wallace, they can make that convention moment. >> it could turn, and it could turn again and maybe had turned in the past view estimate it came so close. cemetery guess what he is thinking of because that is the question. >> well, you know, there is a difference between someone like that and goldman and communists who have power. a goldman goes to the soviet union and russia both in 20, 21, but goes with great hopes in the world you argue this quite rightly even if it is the system that does industrialize the country at a tremendous cost, so i can and not as an anti-communist that thinks that stalin was horrible mass murder, one of the worst of history, and yet at the same time, i agree with both of you that the united states is hardl
so, these are the forces that are moving america. there is movement towards this place we are going to. i am curious to know what you think those forces are. where the labor movement is going to end up because they argue there are moments in history, tiffin plants things can change where there can be of wallace, they can make that convention moment. >> it could turn, and it could turn again and maybe had turned in the past view estimate it came so close. cemetery guess what he is thinking...
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we are famous in america for that. thee aratio of one executive ge to an average worker is 300 to 40s all other countries. so we have been in a major part of the ineq0 lity that i talked about before that has grown up in 30 years comes out of the decisions made in the boardroom with the boards of directors and mothor shareholders about the profits. if the workers themseffeces distributed the profits collectively, would they give poor people $4s every body else says not enough? unlikely. the biggest, best way to undo the inequality of wealth in the united states would be to reorganize a decision about how profits of corporations are distributed. if you are serious about doing something about inequality, here's a good way to start. i could gone and as you can see i enjoy the process but i won't. a place that has been doing that, just so you all know, a small pe when i make this argument i sometimes get skeptics whoe arae their hands, that is all righy we all know about -- run this way for those not aware of it, also true
we are famous in america for that. thee aratio of one executive ge to an average worker is 300 to 40s all other countries. so we have been in a major part of the ineq0 lity that i talked about before that has grown up in 30 years comes out of the decisions made in the boardroom with the boards of directors and mothor shareholders about the profits. if the workers themseffeces distributed the profits collectively, would they give poor people $4s every body else says not enough? unlikely. the...
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this was a civil war which was contained completely within libya, granted america and certainly europe had tremendous financial interests. my question for you, really, is what are the future political consequences of our having acted in internal affairs in this country, and what type of precedent has this set? >> okay. excellent question. i would actually answer that first by saying that the united states and west was not a neutral party in libya, and, in fact, from the moment that the sanctions were lifted, particularly, the u.n. sanctions, and then the arms embargo in 2004, a flood of weaponry came into libya. most of it was over a billion dollars, which, in absolute terms, not that great, but relative to what was there before and what the purposes of what it was used for created a -- i would say an unfair playing field. you couldn't say that we were -- there was not a neutral issue as far as we were concerned. that process, as i argue in the book, was very much tieded to the whole issue of not -- not putting accountability in place for, you know, what we would get and what gadhafi c
this was a civil war which was contained completely within libya, granted america and certainly europe had tremendous financial interests. my question for you, really, is what are the future political consequences of our having acted in internal affairs in this country, and what type of precedent has this set? >> okay. excellent question. i would actually answer that first by saying that the united states and west was not a neutral party in libya, and, in fact, from the moment that the...
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lincoln knew the promise of america to transform lives. to set people free from the bondage of want and deprivation. because he had lived out this promise in his own life, this great experiment in economic and political liberty was not a distraction for him like it is for many of us. it was as real as his own oversized hands in front of his face. and he knew in 1860, 61, 62 that breaking up this country by secession would be the death of the american experiment. but why should this be? we live peacefully side-by-side with canada, after all. why would southern independence doomed the american dream? well, one of the subjects that i had studied in order to write this book is geography. i have to confess i didn't know much. a lot of us don't because we live, unlike lincoln, in a time of cars, trains and airplanes which conquered geography. back then ,-com,-com ma to get from one place to another, you had to walk, which is a great way to learn about the terrain. or you went by these rivers that i talked about earlier. lincoln used the network
lincoln knew the promise of america to transform lives. to set people free from the bondage of want and deprivation. because he had lived out this promise in his own life, this great experiment in economic and political liberty was not a distraction for him like it is for many of us. it was as real as his own oversized hands in front of his face. and he knew in 1860, 61, 62 that breaking up this country by secession would be the death of the american experiment. but why should this be? we live...
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it's as if america is in decline. let's make it number one again. that was very important in the auto industry in the late 70's when volcker was smashing the working class. the state was doing this. a lot of workers were thinking in terms of how we make american number one again. i think one of the issues this people have to come to see that capitalism is a lousy system, even when it's working well. when it's working badly it's exactly what you said, you want to fix it. the main thing i care about, my experience with talking to working people is you may not name a capitalism, but they don't think the world is very good. they don't think that things are very fair or equal, and democracy is actually quite an. did not have much input into happens. the problem isn't that -- the problem is that they feel that there is nothing they can do about it. the question of fatalism immediately gets to the question of organization. if there isn't a way that they concede that they -- you know, structures that they can work through to change things, even if it takes
it's as if america is in decline. let's make it number one again. that was very important in the auto industry in the late 70's when volcker was smashing the working class. the state was doing this. a lot of workers were thinking in terms of how we make american number one again. i think one of the issues this people have to come to see that capitalism is a lousy system, even when it's working well. when it's working badly it's exactly what you said, you want to fix it. the main thing i care...
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was a dollars a generous underwriters, bank of america, raytheon, boston capital, the boston foundation, and our media partners "the boston globe" and w. b. you are. tonight's forum is special for those who work at the presidential library and use the and it is a testimony to the hard work and dedication for those employs to work hard to preserve the nation's history and of president kennedy. this secret recordings of jfk which is now on sale sale, would not have been impossible if not for the incredible skills, talent, professional ism, dedication of our library staff in the. government employees. one person in particular rely to a knowledge its which is then archivist of these white house recording as the archivist who knows more about these taped conversations and any of the american. please join us to acknowledge all of our colleagues work here at the kennedy library. [applause] and we have a wonderful panel with us tonight. joining us is presidential historian, ted widmer has selected the most compelling and important recordings then wrote annotations to put them into context. also
was a dollars a generous underwriters, bank of america, raytheon, boston capital, the boston foundation, and our media partners "the boston globe" and w. b. you are. tonight's forum is special for those who work at the presidential library and use the and it is a testimony to the hard work and dedication for those employs to work hard to preserve the nation's history and of president kennedy. this secret recordings of jfk which is now on sale sale, would not have been impossible if...
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for the last 20 years, this day marks 20 years i have been gathering the oral histories of america's combat veterans from world war i through the current conflict in afghanistan. people said to me what i have done, provided some level of closure in some small way, that is the greatest compliment anybody could ever give me. >> despite the battle for bill 400, for dog company anywhere else? >> the highest casualty rate was at pointe du hoc where there's a picture in the book of a handwritten note of the number of killed and wounded in dog company and every single one of the men with the exception of a few were all wounded and there were 27 men that were killed from june 6th to june 8th in d-day. >> follow-up question. >> they inflicted a number of casualties. the primary -- besides the stabling the guns, pointe du hoc siphon off hundreds of troops that could have been deployed to omaha beach. these men killed many many germans that could have otherwise been manning machine-gun positions on omaha beach. who knows what would have happened if those hundreds of men had been deployed at oma
for the last 20 years, this day marks 20 years i have been gathering the oral histories of america's combat veterans from world war i through the current conflict in afghanistan. people said to me what i have done, provided some level of closure in some small way, that is the greatest compliment anybody could ever give me. >> despite the battle for bill 400, for dog company anywhere else? >> the highest casualty rate was at pointe du hoc where there's a picture in the book of a...
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in fact the first place is what discusses here in america, even -- being opposed to slavery itself was remarkable. it's only in the western only in the 18th century that you have an abolition movement. people actually questioning the morality of slavery. so to me, jefferson was remarkable in that he actually questioned the system and had enough empathy to realize that slaves freed would be so angry at the way they were treated that it might actually rebel. i don't know if you want swedish know, i mean, jefferson was wrong about the blacks because when they were freed, there was no general rebellion after 1895. there was no mass slaughter of former masters. jefferson throughout his life, the revolutionary war was, it was a bit of a shock to him because a number of slaves ran off and joined the british to get the freedom. and he never forgave him for that, and that overrode the loyalty that many more slaves adjourned to the american cause. it overrode the fact that, well first of i should mention, george washington integrated the american army in 1775 blogspot throughout the war in washi
in fact the first place is what discusses here in america, even -- being opposed to slavery itself was remarkable. it's only in the western only in the 18th century that you have an abolition movement. people actually questioning the morality of slavery. so to me, jefferson was remarkable in that he actually questioned the system and had enough empathy to realize that slaves freed would be so angry at the way they were treated that it might actually rebel. i don't know if you want swedish know,...
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to bring russia closer to america fundamentally. it would make canada significant you have shale guest, the tar sand and the hydropower resources with open arctic it would be that much more significant. >> i would like to offer a quick comment. to go through another level off from the decade. but with the change with syria. but to on burden of responsibility, which countries do you envision south america, africa, you wrote about india obviously. in to be applied in and share our objectives? >> interesting brazil has carved out the identity. they always have trouble making arrangements to do missions of brazil. they are more standoffish. because of geography in west africa over the force of a decade so brazil would not be cost file to the united states but it would be independent with its own point* of view. says that may lead to argentina and develop their balance against brazil. it is strategic about the united states has gotten since the cold wear to asia -- from the rise of the cold war. it has been over hyped but within ds 2012
to bring russia closer to america fundamentally. it would make canada significant you have shale guest, the tar sand and the hydropower resources with open arctic it would be that much more significant. >> i would like to offer a quick comment. to go through another level off from the decade. but with the change with syria. but to on burden of responsibility, which countries do you envision south america, africa, you wrote about india obviously. in to be applied in and share our...
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granted, america hand it certainly europe had tremendous financial interests. my question for you really, what are the future political consequences of our having acted in an internal affair in this country and what type of precedent has the said? >> okay. at the excellent question. what actually answer that first by saying that the united states and the west was not a neutral party in libya. in fact among from the moment that sanctions were lifted and particularly first the un sanctions and then the arms embargo in 2004, a flood of weaponry came in. most of it was over a billion dollars which may not be that great, but relative to was there before and the purposes of its use, it created an unfair playing field. you could not say if we were not attacked, you know, this was not a neutral issue as far as we were concerned. that process, and as i argued in the book, it was very much tied to this whole issue of not putting accountability in place for what we would get it as a result of the agreements that were signed with them. a lot of people -- that weaponry, aga
granted, america hand it certainly europe had tremendous financial interests. my question for you really, what are the future political consequences of our having acted in an internal affair in this country and what type of precedent has the said? >> okay. at the excellent question. what actually answer that first by saying that the united states and the west was not a neutral party in libya. in fact among from the moment that sanctions were lifted and particularly first the un sanctions...
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the years, we're told by many people it's a most archive of comp temporary writing they know of in america. one of the thing that helps is writers themselves and know what makes a writer comfortable to respect a writer that has come through a visit and not treat that writer like some sort of circus side show. and to engage that person in conversation. we often like to say in joking among other -- ourselves we invite writers to dinner and we just have these couple of public events on either side of the dinner or some gathererring after one of the public events. what really happens is sitting down and having good conversation. it brings writers back. it's actually one of the things that people most appreciate about the writes' institute. they will be respected as writers. i remember one writer saying you go to some literary readings and you think, gosh, i'm glad i got through that. let me catch the next plane out. you go to the writer's institute and you find yourself saying, wow, that was good. i hope they invite me back. >> the teachers been a vacation across the country, instead of going
the years, we're told by many people it's a most archive of comp temporary writing they know of in america. one of the thing that helps is writers themselves and know what makes a writer comfortable to respect a writer that has come through a visit and not treat that writer like some sort of circus side show. and to engage that person in conversation. we often like to say in joking among other -- ourselves we invite writers to dinner and we just have these couple of public events on either side...
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>> well, look, if i could just answer that, i'm an optimist on america. i believe in america. i'd buy it, you know, if america was a publicly-traded company, i'd buy the stock every day. this country and this economy is tremendously resilient. and one of the great things, i think, about our book is it's got ideas that require action in washington, it's also at state level, individual level and there's some business and corporate level. so, you know, what are the odds? i would, you know, i'm an on the optimist. i would say we will get back to growth. >> kevin? >> the oecd, which is an organization that studies large, developed nations just did a big study to try to identify how big the policy challenges facing the nations around the world are. and they estimated something called the fiscal adjustment, and the fiscal adjustment for greece that they need -- which is either the immediate tax increase or the immediate reduction in spending necessary to make it so that their economy doesn't just explode is about 3% of gdp. which is a pretty big adjustment. they'd have to increase th
>> well, look, if i could just answer that, i'm an optimist on america. i believe in america. i'd buy it, you know, if america was a publicly-traded company, i'd buy the stock every day. this country and this economy is tremendously resilient. and one of the great things, i think, about our book is it's got ideas that require action in washington, it's also at state level, individual level and there's some business and corporate level. so, you know, what are the odds? i would, you know,...
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they didn't necessarily see this as america's war. they saw it as something to directly affect them, and it did that had to concentrate on south vietnam, but a lot of the fighting was going on in laos, and same solders, thai solders, who fought in vietnam, fought in the north and the communists. you can't get a full view of the vietnam war without reading some of these regional perspectives. i think, at times, united states, we tend to not only privilege an american position, but almost to focus on exclusively american perspective of the vietnam war while ignoring vietnamese perspective and thai-lao, cam bodian, other national perspectives to consider. i also think about allies as well, too, that these -- the united states is always going to have foreign allies in these conflicts, and through studying the interaction of what worked and what didn't work, what were the sort of elements where we agreed and disagreed, that kind of thing, that will help us understand what we are doing whether it's in iraq or afghanistan or other conflicts.
they didn't necessarily see this as america's war. they saw it as something to directly affect them, and it did that had to concentrate on south vietnam, but a lot of the fighting was going on in laos, and same solders, thai solders, who fought in vietnam, fought in the north and the communists. you can't get a full view of the vietnam war without reading some of these regional perspectives. i think, at times, united states, we tend to not only privilege an american position, but almost to...
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. >> the white house was very controversial as most things in america were. it was not particularly awe-inspiring. neither large, nor awe-inspiring. but the answer the congressman gave said the purpose, if it were larger and more elegant, perhaps some president would be inclined to become its permanent resident. >> vicki goldberg has gathered a few of her favorite white house photos. watch tonight at 7:30 eastern and pacific on c-span3's american history the. tv. >> next, william silver and former federal reserve chairman paul volcker talk about mr. volcker's life and years of government service. it's about an hour and a half. [applause] >> that was very nice. you didn't tell me there were so many people here. so i have a sneaky suspicion that you're not here just to listen to me, so i'm going to be very brief, 13 minutes on a 300-page book. and i'm going to give you some background, and i'm going to give you some substance. the background starts with the title of the book. the title of the book is the first thing you see, but it's the last thing that we do,
. >> the white house was very controversial as most things in america were. it was not particularly awe-inspiring. neither large, nor awe-inspiring. but the answer the congressman gave said the purpose, if it were larger and more elegant, perhaps some president would be inclined to become its permanent resident. >> vicki goldberg has gathered a few of her favorite white house photos. watch tonight at 7:30 eastern and pacific on c-span3's american history the. tv. >> next,...